The design philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols
- 11 January 1995
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
- Vol. 25 (1) , 102-111
- https://doi.org/10.1145/205447.205458
Abstract
The Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP, was first proposed fifteen years ago. It was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and has been used widely in military and commercial systems. While there have been papers and specifications that describe how the protocols work, it is sometimes difficult to deduce from these why the protocol is as it is. For example, the Internet protocol is based on a connectionless or datagram mode of service. The motivation for this has been greatly misunderstood. This paper attempts to capture some of the early reasoning which shaped the Internet protocols.Keywords
This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
- Issues in packet radio network designProceedings of the IEEE, 1987
- The butterfly satellite IMP for the wideband packet satellite networkPublished by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ,1986
- Internetwork protocolProceedings of the IEEE, 1983
- Advances in packet radio technologyProceedings of the IEEE, 1978
- General purpose packet satellite networksProceedings of the IEEE, 1978
- A Protocol for Packet Network IntercommunicationIEEE Transactions on Communications, 1974